Reading B: Bidpai

This story is part of the Bidpai unit. Story source: The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton, with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, 1908.
  • The Hare, the fox, and the Wolf
    • Hare convinces wolf not to eat it but to eat the fox
    • Fox had secret door-- tricked hare and wolf -- wolf ate hare
  • Three Stories about Snakes
    • The Sparrows and the Snake
      • Snake stole the sparrows' home and then the nest was destroyed and the snake died
    • The Frog, the Crab, and the Serpent
    • The Blind man and the snake
      • Blind man mistook the snake for a whip
      • Wouldn't believe friend when he said it was a snake-- accused of jealousy
      • Blind man gripped it even harder and the snake killed him
  • The two Tortoise stories
    • The Tortoise and the Geese
      • Begs the Geese to take him -- he must be silent on the journey
      • He kept his mouth shut on a stick and the two geese flew him
      • All the humans kept laughing at seeing that
      • He opened his mouth to call them stupid-- he died
      • Moral: don't always have to speak your mind
    • The Scorpion and the Tortoise
      • Good friends
      • Scorpion can't swim so Tortoise puts him on his back
      • Scorpion tries to sting tortoise while he is carrying through the water
      • Tortoise notices and shakes the scorpion off to kill him
      • Moral: don't stab friends in the back
  • Three Stories about Birds
    • The Partridge and the Crow
      • Moral: You can't be someone you aren't
    • The Bleacher, the Crane, and the Hawk
      • Moral: don't judge, especially if you don't know the whole story
  • The Partridge and the Hawk
    • Hawk tries to convince Partridge that he wants to be friends-- he has changed his ways
    • Hawk was actually nice
    • Got sick-- ended up eating her
  • The Three Fish
    • One uses smarts, one sometimes does, one never uses wits
    • First one escapes fishermen by swimming out an outlet
    • Second escapes by playing dead
    • Third is caught and eaten
    • Moral: Be smart
The foolish fish was caught while his friends escaped.

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